2025 Ykkösliiga

The 2025 Ykkösliiga is the second season of the Ykkösliiga, the second highest league in the Finnish football league system. The season began on 21 April 2025.

Ykkösliiga

Season	2025
Dates	21 April 2025 – TBD 2025
Matches played	90
Goals scored	312 (3.47 per match)
Top goalscorer	Onni Helén Tuomas Pippola (10)
Biggest home win	PK-35 4–0 KäPa (18 May 2025) Ekenäs IF 4–0 SalPa (9 July 2025)
Biggest away win	JäPS 0–6 TPS (2 May 2025)
Highest scoring	Klubi 04 4–6 JäPS (23 April 2025)
← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 2 August 2025.

Teams

The league consisted of ten teams; seven teams remaining from the previous season, one team promoted from the Ykkönen, and two teams relegated from the Veikkausliiga.

Team changes

The promoted team was the 2024 Ykkönen champions Klubi 04. They replaced the 2024 Ykkösliiga bottom-placed team MP.

The relegated teams were the 2024 Veikkausliiga bottom-placed team Ekenäs IF and Veikkausliiga play-off losers Lahti. They replaced the 2024 Ykkösliiga champions KTP and Veikkausliiga play-off winners Jaro.

Stadiums and locations

EIF

SalPa

JäPS

Jippo

KäPa, PK-35, Klubi 04

Lahti

TPS

SJK Akatemia

Location of teams in 2025 Ykkösliiga

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager
EIF	Raseborg	Ekenäs Centrumplan	1,400	Christian Sund
JIPPO	Joensuu	Mehtimäki	1,000	Mikko Hallikainen
JäPS	Järvenpää	Järvenpään keskuskenttä	2,000	Teemu Kankkunen
Klubi 04	Helsinki	Bolt Arena	10,770	Aleksi Lalli
KäPa	Helsinki	Brahenkenttä	1,200	Lari Lummepuro
Lahti	Lahti	Lahti Stadium	7,465	Gonçalo Pereira
PK-35	Helsinki	Mustapekka Areena	2,200	Tiago Santos
SalPa	Salo	Salon Urheilupuisto	2,500	Ilkka Virtanen
SJK Akatemia	Seinäjoki	OmaSP Stadion	5,817	Ash Civil
TPS	Turku	Veritas Stadion	9,372	Ivan Piñol

Season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	TPS	18	13	2	3	49	30	+19	41	Promotion to the Veikkausliiga
2	Lahti	18	12	4	2	35	20	+15	40	Qualification for the Veikkausliiga play-off
3	EIF	18	9	3	6	34	26	+8	30
4	Klubi 04	18	8	5	5	38	30	+8	29
5	PK-35	18	7	7	4	28	20	+8	26[a]
6	JIPPO	18	5	8	5	26	25	+1	23
7	JäPS	18	5	6	7	31	41	−10	21
8	SJK Akatemia	18	5	3	10	32	33	−1	18
9	KäPa	18	2	5	11	26	50	−24	11	Qualification for the Ykkösliiga play-off
10	SalPa	18	1	3	14	13	37	−24	6	Relegation to the Ykkönen

Updated to match(es) played on 2 August 2025. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide teams for promotion or relegation).
Notes:

1. PK-35 were deducted two points for failing to fulfill the league license criteria.^[1]

Results

Home \ Away	EIF	JIP	JÄP	KLU	KÄP	LAH	PK	SAL	SJK	TPS
EIF	—	1–1	4–2	3–4	4–2	0–1	2–0	4–0	3–1	0–2
JIPPO	3–2	—	1–1	0–3	3–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	1–2
JäPS	1–1	1–1	—	2–0	2–2	2–1	1–4	4–3	2–2	0–6
Klubi 04	2–2	1–1	4–6	—	1–1	0–2	1–1	3–1	3–2	3–1
KäPa	1–3	1–1	0–3	0–5	—	2–2	1–1	3–1	0–3	4–2
Lahti	3–1	3–2	2–0	2–1	5–3	—	2–1	1–0	1–0	2–2
PK-35	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	—	3–1	2–1	2–3
SalPa	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–3	1–0	1–2	1–2	—	0–0	1–2
SJK Akatemia	0–1	3–1	4–1	1–2	5–3	0–3	1–1	3–0	—	3–4
TPS	2–0	2–1	4–2	4–1	4–2	2–2	1–2	3–2	3–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 2 August 2025. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers As of 2 August 2025[2] Rank Player Club Goals 1 Tuomas Pippola TPS 10 Onni Helén TPS Salomo Ojala Ekenäs IF Elias Kallio Käpylän Pallo 5 Justus Ojanen SJK Akatemia 8 Otso Koskinen Lahti Albijon Muzaci TPS Eino-Iivari Pitkälä PK-35 9 Stanislav Baranov Klubi 04 7 Ayuub Ahmed-Nur PK-35 Impton Söderlund JäPS 12 Onni Hänninen SJK Akatemia 6 Jyri Kiuru Jippo Emil Ingman Klubi 04 Hat-tricks As of 3 July 2025 Player For Against Result Date Stanislav Baranov Klubi 04 Ekenäs IF 4–3 (A) 12 May 2025 Otso Koskinen FC Lahti Käpylän Pallo 5–3 (H) 25 May 2025[3] Justus Ojanen SJK Akatemia Käpylän Pallo 5–3 (Y) 18 June 2025 Martim Ferreira FC Lahti Jippo 3–2 (H) 3 July 2025

Clean sheets As of 14 June 2025[2] Rank Player Club Clean sheets 1 Osku Maukonen Lahti 6 2 Dimitrios Goumas PK-35 3 3 Otso Linnas Ekenäs IF 2 Samuel James SJK Akatemia Olli Hakanpää TPS Joonas Koski SalPa Pyry Piirainen Jippo 8 Alex Ramula Klubi 04 1 Lauri Vetri SalPa Janne Laiho JäPS

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month	Ref
May	Stanislav Baranov (Klubi 04)	[4]
June	Tuomas Pippola (TPS)	[5]
July	Elias Kallio (Käpylän Pallo)	[6]

See also

• 2025 Veikkausliiga
• 2025 Finnish Cup
• 2025 Kakkonen
• List of Finnish football transfers winter 2024–25